George Thurber and William Munro Gramineae papers, circa 1850-1892
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No. 2016 Wright t 747 col of 1849 - Collected also at Laguna Colorado New Mexico (?) by Dr. Bridson in Copts Whipple Dr R.Survey. We have described the what we consider the normal & most common form of this polymorphons & puzzling species - Dr. Sprouts sometimes finds the widely, varying. The Spikelets much elongated & many flowered - with several of the lower flowers Staminate. The paleae with long short awns while the upper flowers are as described above or the whole Spikelet composed of Branches as 20 distant Staminate fle with Min Barified or variously armed lower paleae - It is closely related to B. Multineta [Entrina] of Rees, from which it differs in its solitary Spikelets & much longer Ater & Endeisters in his additions of Batricinus persons & with that. Belongs in the subdivision Triplachena Indica, 143 Nurve Big Whip Slued Flore 144 - Puerto de Pupuns Bry